Vista - Vista SP1 Slipstream Installation DVD

Hi RayJay, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I'm assuming that you mean you are trying to use it for a Repair (upgrade) install. When you made the slipstream DVD, did you include the correct 32 bit SP1 version and 32 bit Vista Home Premium Edition for your currently installed Vista?

What type of Vista installation DVD are you using to make the slipstream DVD with? (ex: Retail, OEM, Express, etc...)

Shawn

Hi rayjay,

It looks like you are doing an upgrade installation rather than a clean install.

You need to boot from your newly created vLite disc then the upgrade option is greyed out and you will do a clean install - see Shawns excellent tutorial :

Clean Install with a Full Version of Vista


Save any important documents etc. and make sure you have any drivers you need so you can format i.e. clean the partition you are going to install on.

If you haven't already made a second partition, you will just see a C: drive. I suggest making a second partition beforehand, name it D, and copy anything you want to keep onto it before reinstalling so you only need to format and then install on drive C:

Disk Management - Shrink Partition


SIW2

Hey Thanks guys,
I,am using Vista Home Primium 32 Bit, Asus P5W-Delux, The intel E6600 dual core 2.4, 4G Ram, Nvidia 8600GTs OC, and 3-500g satas. I used the 5 Lanugage stand alone Sp1 one. I Have The Home premium I got @circuit city.
I notice this on the Stand alone site:


Microsoft strongly recommends using Windows Update to download and install Windows Vista SP1 on single PCs: I Have The Home premium I got @circuit city

• The download size from Windows Update of Windows Vista SP1 for x86 is 65 MB (compared to 450 MB from the Microsoft Download Center).

I have the sp1 through the windows update. Could this be causing the Issue?
I have used the repair before sp1 and it worked well for me. Would like to still be able to do this. Thanks for the help.
Sometimes we get lost, and its nice to find your way back with the help of all the faceless people here who go out of thier way to help!

Rayjay,

I would use the SP1 from the Microsoft Download Center instead of the one from Windows Update for the slipstream DVD to see how it works for you instead.

Brink:

Can you do a Vista SP 1 slipstream to a Upgrade version of Vista, that has not been installed yet?
Thanks
b52bomer

Hi,

I have not tried this myself, but as it is possible to do a clean install with an upgrade disc, it must contain all the files.

Almost certainly it can be done.

When you have done the slipstream, your new dvd will still be an upgrade disc, though it contains SP1.

To use it to do a clean install, follow the steps in this tutorial

Clean Install From Upgrade Vista

Hope it works out

SIW2

Following the instructions, the Windows version increments to 6.0.6001.18000, but when I try to repair/"upgrade", the upgrade option is disabled (message states installation source is not newer than my current version of Windows). I did it twice and same results both times -- following steps exactly. It's Vista Business, 32-bit, if that matters.

Any thoughts on this? I'd uninstall SP1, but one of the reasons I'm trying to repair is that my Programs and Features control panel app stubbornly refuses to come up -- it flashes on the screen and then off, so I can't access the list of updates in order to uninstall... I'm REALLY trying to avoid a clean install.

I suspect this is because your existing install has been getting Windows Updates regularly i.e. post SP1, therefore it is more up to date e.g. with Windows Defender updates than the one you are trying to upgrade to.

Of course this wouldn't happen if you were doing a clean install.

Seems the only way would be to uninstall the updates from your existing installation first.

Since you can't do that, I think you will have to do a clean install - unless Shawn has any other ideas .

Although vLite has a function for integrating updates , I have never been able to make this work.

Seems like it would be quicker and less painful to do the clean install.


SIW2

Severtki,

From what I gather from your post, you are trying to do a repair install using a SP1 slipstreamed disk onto same edition (i.e business ) that hasn't got SP1 - when you check in the system window what does it say?

This is different from b52bomer who I think wanted to do a clean install tho. he only had the upgrade disk.

He was not trying to repair the same Vista edition.


SIW2

I do have SP1 plus all current Windows updates on Vista Business 32, and I'm trying to do a repair install using a slipstreamed SP1 disk of the same edition. My current Windows version is reported as 6.0.6001 (incremented for SP1), and I believe that's what the installer uses to check whether upgrade is available or not. I'd be a little surprised if other critical updates or hotfixes would by themselves cause upgrade to be disabled, but... who knows.

Since it takes me two or three weeks to install everything on a new build and customize to the way I like, a clean install would be very painful... What about a second, parallel installation to a different drive -- so I could use the old as I plug away at getting up and running on the new?